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Journal Article
Nuances of Truth
2024
Overview
Chaim Potok’s novel My Name is Asher Lev uses as its central image a crucifixion, a complicated form for its Jewish protagonist to use. Though Potok and Asher understand the form to be merely an aesthetic mold, this article argues that the novel can be best read in reference to both the Hasidic and Christian teachings on atonement, a reading which better appreciates the communicative potential of the crucifixion regarding the Lev family’s work of atonement, particularly in the themes of suffering and sacrifice it images.
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Marquette University Press,Renascence
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